American Cheerleaders Root for Indian Cricket
Bangalore renames IPL cheerleaders as White Mischief Gals
April 14, 2009
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RC) has enhanced its last year’s 14-member cheerleading team and rechristened it as ‘White Mischeif Gals’ after the owner United Spirits Ltd.’s (USL) vodka brand White
Mischief crossed sales of a million cases in the year recently.
The cheerleading team consists of a mix of 14 seasoned cheerleaders from US-based Varsity, one of the most renowned names in the world of cheerleading. The team also has 10 other international cheerleaders who have trained with the Varsity team.
Says USL Business Head Debashish Shyam, “The White Mischief Gals have been specially trained in flirty acrobatic skills for a scintillating on-field performance that sets them distinctly apart from any other cheerleading squad. We will hold special previews of their acts for fans at select clubs in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Lucknow.”
Fourteen of the cheerleaders team headed by Rebecca Reid will fly to South Africa to cheer on the RC team, while 10 will stay back and pick up 15 lucky and bold flirters to watch one match in South Africa. Flirt
with Michief Gals is among the contests planned by the brains at RC.
White Mischief Gals willl arrive in each city in a specially designed bus with evocative slogans for the fans. The fans have more to cheer as special on-ground promotions will get them branded White Mischief merchandise with flirtatious messages and tips.
Mischief Gal Rebecca Lee yearns for cricket in America
May 10, 2009
After Lalit Modi and Inderjit Bindra, it is the turn of the Mischief Gals, the American cheerleading squad that is cheering for Bangalore, to push for cricket in America.
That’s right. Mischief Gal Rebecca Lee wrote in her blog last week: “Heard somewhere that they are planning to launch Twenty20 cricket even in America. That would be cool. Over the last two weeks I have quite started to love the game. It is exciting and definitely can have a good following in the US.”
This ringing endorsement from IPL’s most visible American supporters came a week after Inderjit Bindra, ICC’s Principal Advisor, suggested that USACA should copy the IPL model and look at private ownership for teams, each of which can have a mix of foreign and local players.
In fact, the gals have been so smitten by cricket that they watch it on the television even when they are not in the stadium. It is not just cricket, the gals have taken a liking to that other British export that is everybody’s favorite in the commonwealth – Cadbury’s!
“At home we don’t have the same candy that they do here. It is odd to see so many different candy bars made by Cadbury, as we usually only see Cadbury candy at Easter time in the US.”
You think of cheerleaders as airheads and other such unflattering cheerleading stereotypes, cease and desist immediately. Rebecca Lee went to Florida State University and Cumberland School of Law and is a
practising attorney. She says, “Some people try to make us out as dumb girls, but cheerleading is on its way to become an Olympic sport, and so it’s quite a serious sport.”
Cricket, unfortunately, is not on its way to become an Olympic sport. So perhaps the cheerleaders will also push for recognition of cricket as an Olympic sport.
The American cheerleaders have figured out the ins and outs of cricket.
Rebecca says the rules are simple: “If the ball crosses the boundary along the ground, it’s a four. If it crosses the ropes without touching the ground, it is a six.”
Rebecca calls it baseball 2.0. Nothing more, nothing less!
